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Avian Influenza Disease Emergency: issue No. 51 (16/03/2008)

Avian Influenza Disease Emergency

Year of publication 2008

Pages 12

Author Phil Harris;Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Ducks, people and rice paddies – rather than chickens – are the major factors behind outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Thailand and Viet Nam, and are probably behind outbreak persistence in other countries of the region such as Cambodia and Lao PDR. In "Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia: ducks, rice and people", just published in the latest issue (26 March 2008) of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (P NAS)*, a group of experts from FAO and associated research centres looked at the series of waves of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Thailand and Viet Nam between early 2004 and late 2005.

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